American Quote by Audra McDonald

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears.…

— Audra McDonald

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

— Grace Jones

When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

— Michael Franti

After 3 months of trying to learn a southern accent, it still comes out Jamaican

— Meller

Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica…

— Nas

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

— Callan McAuliffe

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour…

— John Oliver

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

— Stefflon Don

To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them…

— Joe Strummer

I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the…

— Gene Simmons

It was such a culture shock for me, being plucked from this diverse neighborhood in London into Jamaica Queens. I'm in this new environment,…

— Ella Mai

When I went on air and people heard my accent, they all said it was really nice to have a northern voice.

— Steph McGovern